Collection of letters and documents, regarding Holocaust refugees and the Jewish community in Shanghai. Shanghai, mostly 1945-1946. Hebrew, Yiddish, English, German and Russian.
The letters include:
• Letter from the Vaad HaKashrut of Shanghai, with a request for shechitah knives. Signed by R. Efraim Mordechai Ginsburg (eldest son-in-law of R. Yechezkel Levenstein) - on behalf of the kollelim; R. Aryeh Leib Malin - on behalf of the Mir yeshiva; R. Gershon Chanowitz - on behalf of the Lubavitch yeshiva; R. Ben Tzion Kalman Gleizel Rabbi of Tuchyn - on behalf of the rabbis; R. Mordechai Yehuda Lubart - on behalf the Lublin yeshiva.
• Two letters from R. Meir Ashkenazi, rabbi of Shanghai.
• Two letters from Emil Wiehl to Mrs. Hendler of Canada. Description of the state of the refugees in Shanghai, and report of his activities on behalf of Mrs. Hendler. English.
• Other letters, both private and communal.
13 letters, and other paper items (envelopes, lists, photograph). Size and condition vary. Overall good condition.